History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin, O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882. p. 719.
[Harrison County] [Leesburg Precinct]
BUSHROD TEMPLE BOSWELL, P. O. Leesburg; farmer and stock raiser; was born
Jan. 14, 1811. His father was William Elliott Boswell, born Jan. 8, 1772
and died May 22, 1828. His grandfather was George Boswell, who died near
David's Fork in 1817. His mother was Hannah Hardage Smith, daughter of
Temple Smith, of Harrison, she being born Aug. 5, 1781, and died Feb. 12,
1863. The father and mother were married in 1810. Our subject was
married in 1844, to Miss Susan Smith, by whom he had one child, which died
in infancy. Mrs. Boswell dying in 1846, Mr. Boswell, in 1852, married
Miss Susan Penn, of Scott County, by whom he has had eight children:
William Gustavus, James Lane, Joseph, Sallie Hunter, Lizzie Hardage,
Mollie, John, Temple. Mr. Boswell followed farming until 1839, when he
commenced selling goods at Leesburg, which he continued until 1861, since
which time he has been engaged in farming, owning at the present time 215
acres of land half mile from Leesburg, where, in addition to general
farming he raises a high grade of stock. Mr. Boswell volunteered for the
Sabine War in 1836, and was Lieutenant of Captain Coleman's company, but
was disbanded by proclamation of President Jackson before marching to the
front. From 1846 to 1848 he was General of Militia. His father and
brother were in the war of 1812-1814. The father of Mr. Boswell came to
Kentucky in 1790, from Loudoun County, Va., and was a member of the first
Legislature from Harrison County in 1793, serving in the same capacity
till [sic] 1806; was also a member of the Constitutional Convention in
1799. He commanded a regiment in the war of 1812, and was in the battle
of Fort Meigs, in 1813. His wife and two of his children, James and
Sallie, are members of the Baptist Church at Silas and he is a Democrat.
Boswell Smith Penn
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Scott-KY Loudoun-VA
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